DV8 TC-6 Manual

TC-6 TIRE CARRIER
Install Manual
Esmated install me - Approx. 30min -1 hour. Diculty Level: EASY
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2. The re carrier will come o by
unbolng the eight 14mm bolts
holding on the carrier to the tail-
gate. Pull out the wire and plug
from the tailgate door. Just have to
pinch and pull out.
1. Start from inside the tailgate
door, remove the vent. The vent is
held on by two snap-in clips on the
le side. Pull out, on the le side,
using your hand or a tool to pry.
Disconnect the plug directly inside.
4. Aach the new tailgate plate us-
ing the factory hardware. Torque
the bolts to 15lbs. Make sure the
plate orientaon is the same as pic-
tured.
3. Apply the new foam seal to the
new tail gate plate.

4. Pry out the rubber plug from the top of
the passenger side (right) of the RS-10 or
RS-11 bumper. Drop in the new axle,
tapered side down thru the hole. Spin on
one of the new large nylock
nuts with one of the large washers be-
tween it. You wont be tightening till
you have the carrier on.
5. Slide on one of the new sealed bear-
ings over the axle and follow that with the
tire carrier and the second sealed bearing.
Note: Be careful letting go of the tire
carrier as it can swing around and hit the
Jeep.
6. Drop the new washer on top of the
second bearing and spin on the large ny-
lock nut. In order to ghten the carrier
you will be ghtening both the top and
boom of the axle sha at the same
me. You can use a socket for the top
but will need a wrench for the boom
nut. Note: Hand ghten only!
7. Bolt in the composite “U” shaped
piece on to the tailgate plate using sup-
plied nuts, bolts, washers and split-
washers. Firmly hand-ghten.

8. Locate the bracket and hardware shown
in the picture.
9. Install bracket on to the re carrier. This
bracket will line up with the “U” shaped spot
on the tailgate plate. To line up, loosely bolt
up the bracket and close tailgate. Tighten
the bracket once you aligned it with the “U”
shaped area of the tailgate. Hand ghten
only.
10. Locate the heimed rod ends and hard-
ware shown in picture.
11. Screw the heims together and bolt the
female end to the carrier. To set the other
end length, close the tailgate and re carrier.
Rotate the male end of the heim to lengthen
or shorten to line up with the bracket on the
tailgate plate like shown in picture. Open tail-
gate and rotate the male end of hiem 1/2
turn ghter and bolt up to tail gate bracket.
Torque bolts for heims to 20lbs.

12. Install the new rubber cap over the axle
bolt bearing area on re carrier. This piece
will help keep the bearing clean and smooth.
13. Locate the spare re inner mounng
bracket and nuts and bolts for it. See picture.
14. Bolt to the outside of the re carrier. In
order to make sure your re will clear the
bumper use a helper to li spare re up to
see how far up to mount the bracket. Torque
the bolts to 25lbs. Note: To minimize shaking
you want the spare to be at the lowest level
necessary to clear the bumper.
15. Bolt the outer poron of the spare brack-
et to the inner part. Keep the bolts a lile
loose. With the outer all the way extended,
place the spare on it and push re ll re
touches the carrier. Remove re. Slide outer
part of bracket in extra 1/4 inch and torque
bolts to 40lbs. Re-install re using the lug
nuts supplied with our kit. Torque to 50lbs.

16. Open and close and ghten the heim
in 1/2 increments to get the snug t you’re
looking for. Note: You may use your lug
nuts as long as you verify that they are the
same thread pitch as the mounng brack-
et.
17. Tighten all bolts that you previously
le hand ght and you are nished!
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